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Psychology Quotes
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
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"She asked him, to name the monster that he is most afraid of always and looked into his eyes in silence. 'I see him every time whenever I stare into your eyes.' he replied."
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"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."
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"Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers."
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"There was a closet somewhere inside me. Every day I went near that just to open the door and see all the masks of my face that I hid there.To select one which isn't me but still would look like me, which would hide me from the world in a better way. Day after day I stored so many masks in that closet that one day I searched for my real face in it and it wasn't there. I never understood whether I lost it or I forgot how it looked like, the more I searched the most lost I felt."
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"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology."
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"No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
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"The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel."
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"Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them."
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"In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them."
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"This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine. And in so far I was doubtless right. I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."
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"I would say about 80 to 90 percent of people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunction and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will know this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy."
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"Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived."
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"In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me."
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"He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it."
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"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."
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"I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going."
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"I have lost confidence in myself."
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"People think that those who commit suicide are against life-they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves."
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"Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy."
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"When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more."
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"Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open."
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"You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world that's inside you."
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"Your beliefs frame your thoughts and actions. If you change your beliefs, you change your reality."
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"The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings."
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"Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it."
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"When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless."
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"Our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives..."
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"Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head."
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"Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires."
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"One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior."
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"He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to."
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"When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you."
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"I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you."
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"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
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"The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do."
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"Gazing out of the window, the gravel path roared as it was crushed into submission under the wheels of the car that was taking me towards a menacing looking medieval castle with two huge and terrifying turrets that seemingly reached out towards me. I imagined that I was the gravel and the wheels of the car were the social care system."
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"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."
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"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words."
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"We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy."
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"I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth."
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"Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?"
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"Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."
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"Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy."
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"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
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"When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, "I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!"
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"You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear."
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"To me, Hell isn't a place; it's a state of mind. It is a psychological self-imprisonment in which fear is the warden. It is a result of not living in alignment with your goals, dreams, and purpose. It is to find yourself in the endless emotional agony of, "What if?"
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"Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment."
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"Violence leads to madness, it fills you with crazy thoughts. You sleep it, eat it and shit it. You become a time bomb. They push you a bit more " you blow up. They beat you and you survive. You get strong and you blow again. So how long can a man live this way? I'll tell you-until he dies, if need be. It becomes a way of life, but I don't remember it, why? Simple-it's painful; it's empty and alone. Your cell becomes a hole in the earth, it sucks you in. You drown in your own bitterness, it's not right to live this way."
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